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They said they were keen to find out more.

'We would greatly appreciate additional information, especially
regarding how X works with [other ministers and officials], assessments
of performance in office, and information on his political goals.'

The personal nature of the material spread by Washington raises
questions about why they were engaged on gathering dirt on their
closest international allies.

Crisis: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called world leaders to apologise for comments contained in the leaked cables

Last night the Guido Fawkes political website said Mr Lewis was the likely subject of the cables.

He
was a health minister in 2007 when he apologised for sending suggestive
text messages to Susie Mason, a pretty 24-year-old assistant who worked
in his private office in Whitehall.

After taking another civil service position, Miss Mason later quit to go to the private sector.

The case was revealed in national newspapers and diplomats would not have had to go very far to look up the allegations.

Mr
Lewis would have angered the U.S. because in 2009, when he was the
Foreign Office minister responsible for Libya, he wrote to Scottish
Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill, giving him the green light to release
Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi under the prisoner
transfer agreement.